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To: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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Subject: Re: ramdisks revisited 
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In message <200403161003.01889.wes@opensail.org>, Wes Peters writes:
>The guy who originally asked for the ability to control ownership and 
>permissions of his ramdisks discovered one critical flaw in my lovely 
>rc.d script: chown isn't in /sbin (or /rescue) on a vanilla 5.x system.
>
>As an alternative to moving binaries into the root filesystem, I propose 
>the following patch to mdconfig to add options to specify the ownership 
>and permissions of the newly attached md device.  Options added are 
>-m mode, -g group, and -O owner (because -o and -u were both already used.) 
>I will, of course, update the man page before committing.  Any objections?

sounds OK with me.

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